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Found this great info on "a view to" blog. I feel like I have been waiting for a good Coco Chanel biopic ever since I discovered her and her history when I was 12. Oh Oh Oh! and Audrey Tautou will be perfect in this role!!!



COCO CHANEL


French actress Audrey Tautou will be featuring in a new biopic as legendary designer Coco Chanel. Directed by Anne Fontaine and produced by Caroline Benjo, the film depicts Coco's childhood and early adult life.
The French film will be fully subtitled, with the main inspiration taken from Coco & Igor, a book written in 2002 by William Friedkin about Chanel's love affair with Russia's avant-garde composer Igor Stravinski. The exact release date is still unknown, although it is rumoured to be out later this year.

Some facts about Coco Chanel's influence on the 2oth century from Wikipedia...

Chanel popularized the little black dress which had a blank-slate versatility that allowed it to be worn for both day and night. The black Chanel dress was strapless, backless and more than a little risqué. It shocked the general public at large but quickly became a fashion sensation. The Chanel dress premiered in the third-ever edition of Playboy. This added to the controversy surrounding the Chanel name.

It was Chanel No. 5 - considered the number-one selling perfume in the world - which helped her become a millionaire. The perfume was created in 1921 by Ernest Beaux at the request of Chanel, who said that it was "a woman's perfume with the scent of woman." Its Art Deco bottle was incorporated into the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, New York, in 1959. Chanel No. 5 was the first synthetic perfume to take the name of a designer. One of her most famous quotes is, "This perfume is not just beautiful and fragrant. It contains my blood and sweat and a million broken dreams."

In 1923, she told Harper's Bazaar that "simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance." Chanel always kept the clothing she designed simple and comfortable and revealing. She took what were considered poor fabrics like jersey and upgraded them. She was instrumental in helping to design the image of the 1920s flapper, a "new breed" of young women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to new jazz music, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. The flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles, and showing a lot of skin.